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Motivation (Psychology) in literature

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• Imagined Human Beings: A Psychological Approach to Character and Conflict in Literature (New York and London: New York University Press, c1992), by Bernard J. Paris (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Motive and Intention: An Essay in the Appreciation of Action (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1972), by Roy Lawrence (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• Economia e Felicità (in Italian; Milan: Casa editrice F. Vallardi, ca. 1918), by Robert Michels (page images at HathiTrust)

• Embracing the Other: Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism (New York and London: New York University Press, c1992), ed. by Pearl M. Oliner, Samuel P. Oliner, Lawrence Baron, Lawrence A. Blum, Dennis Krebs, and M. Zuzanna Smolenska (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Go-Getter: A Story That Tells You How to be One, by Peter B. Kyne (Gutenberg text)

• Terry (London: T. Butterworth, c1927), by James Hilton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Christina Alberta's Father (New York: Macmillan, 1925), by H. G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Awakening, by Kate Chopin (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• The Magic Skin (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1915), by Honoré de Balzac, trans. by Ellen Marriage (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Magic Skin, by Honoré de Balzac, trans. by Ellen Marriage (Gutenberg text)

• Rethinking Gamification (Lüneburg, Germany: Meson Press, 2014), ed. by Mathias Fuchs, Sonia Fizek, Paolo Ruffino, and Niklas Schrape (PDF and Epub with commentary at Mesaon Press)
• Gamification at Work: Designing Engaging Business Software, by Janaki Kumar and Mario Herger (HTML with commentary at interaction-design.org)

• Universities in Transition: Foregrounding Social Contexts of Knowledge in the First Year Experience (Adelaide: Adelaide University Press, c2014), ed. by Heather Brook, Deane Fergie, Michael Maeorg, and Dee Michell (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• When Prophecy Fails (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c1956), by Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, and Stanley Schachter (page images at HathiTrust)

• Playing to Win: Becoming the Champion, by David Sirlin (HTML with commentary at squarespace.com)

• Poor Miss Finch, by Wilkie Collins
  • HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text
• East of Eden (c1952), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Fleetwood: or, The New Man of Feeling (Standard Novels #32; London: R. Bentley, 1832), by William Godwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Murder of Delicia (London: Skeffington and Son, 1896), by Marie Corelli (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Murder of Delicia (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1896), by Marie Corelli (Gutenberg multiple formats)

• The Music of Management: Applying Organization Theory (book originally published 2004; electronic edition, c2014), by Dennis R. Young (PDF files at GSU)

• Incentive Pay: The Speed-Up New Style (New York: Workers Party, ca. 1943), by Albert Glotzer (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Graying Teachers: A Report on State Pension Systems and School District Early Retirement Incentives (Eugene, OR: ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management, 1992), by Frank V. Auriemma, Bruce S. Cooper, and Stuart Carl Smith (PDF at Oregon)

• A Big Apple for Educators: New York City's Experiment with Schoolwide Performance Bonuses: Final Evaluation Report (c2011), by Julie A. Marsh, Matthew G. Springer, Daniel F. McCaffrey, Kun Yuan, Scott Epstein, Julia Koppich, Nidhi Kalra, Catherine Dimartino, and Art Peng (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Mom, Apple Pie, and Working for America: Accountability and Rewards for the Federal Workforce (Washington: GPO, 2006), by United State House Committee on Government Reform
  • PDF at fdlp.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Socialist Competition in the Soviet Union (Series on the five year plan #1; ca. 1929), by Friends of the Soviet Union (Group)
  • PDF at flvc.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Corporate Governance and Enterprise Reform in China: Building the Institutions of Modern Markets (Washington: World Bank and International Finance Corporation, 2002), by Stoyan Tenev, Chunlin Zhang, and Loup Berfort (PDF at worldbank.org)

• Installing and Maintaining an Employee Suggestion Program (report #589; ca. 1949), by Dartnell Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)

• Journal of Neurotherapy (partial serial archives)

• Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (first and second editions, 1998 and 2018), by Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto (HTML and PDF at incompleteideas.net)

• Persons From Porlock (Chicago: Bookfellows, 1923), by Vincent Starrett
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Rights in Retreat: Abuses in Crimea (in English, Russian, and Ukrainian; New York: Human Rights Watch, c2014), by Yulia Gorbunova (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at hrw.org)

• Scientific Illiteracy: Causes, Costs, and Cures (ILR reprints #641 (originally appeared in The Year in School Science); 1989), by John H. Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Nature of Civilization: A Psychological Analysis (1977), by Paul Rosenfels (HTML with commentary at rosenfels.org)
• Be Your Own Therapist: Psychology Self Help (ca. 1995), by Thayer White (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• To Love is To Be Happy With, by Barry Neil Kaufman (HTML at option.org)
• You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought, by Peter McWilliams (HTML at drugsense.org)
• Subjectivity and Objectivity: Further Aspects of Psychological Growth (1974), by Paul Rosenfels (HTML with commentary at rosenfels.org)
• The Secret of the Ages (New York: R. Collier, 1926), by Robert Collier (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Inner Light: Your Fantasies and Dreams, by Scott Hughes (HTML at ideapyramid.com)

• Seven-Day Magic (author died in 1964; c1962), by Edward Eager (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Magic or Not? (author died in 1964; c1959), by Edward Eager (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Five Children and It, by E. Nesbit
  • illustrated HTML at Forgotten Futures
  • HTML at Indiana
• Half Magic (author died in 1964; c1954), by Edward Eager (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Der Hund von Florenz (in German; Vienna and Leipzig: Herz Verlag, 1923), by Felix Salten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tommy and the Wishing Stone (New York: The Century Co., 1915), by Thornton W. Burgess, illust. by Harrison Cady (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tommy's Change of Heart (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1921), by Thornton W. Burgess, illust. by Harrison Cady
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at loc.gov
• Tommy's Wishes Come True (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1921), by Thornton W. Burgess, illust. by Harrison Cady
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at loc.gov

• Literature Matters (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by J. Hillis Miller, ed. by Monika Reif-Hülser (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
• Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Essays in the History of Ideas (originally published 1948; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Humanistic Studies (partial serial archives)
• Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Frederick William Robertson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Relation of Literature to Life, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Saturday Papers: Essays on Literature From the Literary Review (first (and only known) volume of selections from The Literary Review of the New York Post; New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benét, and Amy Loveman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

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